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Col-OSSOS: Compositional Homogeneity of Three Kuiper Belt Binaries

Wesley Fraser
Michele Bannister
Megan Schwamb
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Rosemary Pike
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Susan Benecchi
J. Kavelaars
Ying-Tung Chen
Stephen Gwyn
Kathryn Volk

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The surface characterization of Trans-Neptunian binaries (TNBs) is key to understanding the properties of the disk of planetesimals from which these objects formed. In the optical wavelengths, it has been demonstrated that most equal-sized component systems share similar colors, suggesting they have a similar composition. The color homogeneity of binary pairs contrasts with the overall diversity of colors in the Kuiper Belt, which was interpreted as evidence that Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) formed from a locally homogeneous and globally heterogeneous protoplanetary disk. In this paradigm, binary pairs must have formed early, before the dynamically hot TNOs were scattered out from their formation location. The latter inferences, however, relied on the assumption that the matching colors of the binary components imply matching composition. Here, we test this assumption by examining the component-resolved photometry of three TNBs found in the Outer Solar System Origins Survey: 505447 (2013SQ99), 511551 (2014UD225), and 506121 (2016BP81), across the visible and J-band nearinfrared wavelength range. We report similar colors within 2σ for the binary pairs, which is suggestive of similar reflectance spectra and hence surface composition. This advocates for gravitational collapse of pebble clouds as a possible TNO formation route. However, we stress that several similarly small TNOs, including at least one binary, have been shown to exhibit substantial spectral variability in the near-infrared, implying color equality of binary pairs is likely to be violated in some cases.
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Michael Marsset, Wesley Fraser, Michele Bannister, Megan Schwamb, Rosemary Pike, et al.. Col-OSSOS: Compositional Homogeneity of Three Kuiper Belt Binaries. The Planetary Science Journal, 2020, 1 (1), pp.16. ⟨10.3847/PSJ/ab8cc0⟩. ⟨hal-02884321⟩
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